Valley of the Tennessee
This 1944 film was made by the U.S. Office of War Information’s Overseas Motion Picture Bureau. It details the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, which was founded in 1933 to address…
501 viewsThis 1944 film was made by the U.S. Office of War Information’s Overseas Motion Picture Bureau. It details the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, which was founded in 1933 to address…
501 viewsRobert Levine talked about the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War and the lives of Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. This virtual program was hosted by the National…
88 viewsDuring the American Revolution, not all colonists wanted nor fought for independence from England. Early American historians discussed the legacy of loyalists and examine why some wanted to…
226 viewsAuthor Amy Zegart tracked the history of American espionage from George Washington’s Revolutionary War spies to today’s digital world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with intelligence…
238 viewsUniversity of Pennsylvania political science professor Adolph Reed provided a history of the Jim Crow era through the day-to-day lives of Blacks in the South. This was a virtual program…
110 viewsJeffrey Frank revisited Harry Truman’s presidency - including the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, and the dropping of the first nuclear bombs, among other topics. The…
184 viewsAuthor Mary Sarah Bilder looked at the life of Eliza Harriot Barons O’Connor, one of the first female lecturers in the 1780s, and her impact on American intellectual life. This virtual…
103 viewsAuthor Roger Lowenstein talked about how Abraham Lincoln and his secretary of Treasury Salmon Chase worked together to manage the financial front during the Civil War, levying taxes and…
130 viewsAllen Guelzo talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s life from boyhood through the Civil War. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual program.
1,475 viewsAquinas College professor John Pinheiro taught a class about the Mexican-American War during the late 1840s. Professor Pinheiro is the author of Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and…
389 viewsThis Academy Award-winning short documentary takes viewers on a tour through the Library’s reading rooms and facilities, highlighting how the institution benefits the public and scholars…
123 viewsHistorians discussed soldier recruitment, forced labor and the use of horses and mules during the Civil War. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies hosted this program.
127 viewsHistorians discussed the year 1862, examining the state of native nations, public lands, black education, and West coast immigration. This program was part of the Organization of American…
51 viewsHistorians looked back at the year 1862 and discussed Native Americans and the American West, including the U.S-Dakota Wars and the Sand Creek Massacre. This program was part of the…
39 viewsThe University of Virginia’s Miller Center compiled and analyzed the secret White House recordings of several presidents -- including John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. The…
66 viewsAmerican History TV looked back to see what the 9 justices who currently sit on the Supreme Court had to say about abortion and the 1973 Roe v Wade case in their confirmation hearings.
101 viewsLycoming College history professor Sarah Silkey recounted journalist and civil rights activist Ida. B. Well’s 1893-94 anti-lynching campaigns and her attempts to gain support from abolitionists in Britain.…
National Park Service Ranger Kate Marks Hardy talked about women living in the Chesapeake Bay region during the War of 1812. This virtual event was hosted by the Pride of Baltimore.
105 viewsSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at a Heritage Foundation event marking the 30th anniversary of Justice Thomas' confirmation to the…
2,514 viewsUniversity of Alabama professor Lesley Gordon taught a class about the end of Reconstruction, the removal of Union troops from the South, and the Compromise of 1877.